Rotary Inoculates 2 Billion Children Against Polio

Rotary International has contributed more than US$600 million to the polio eradication activities in 122 countries. In addition, tens of thousands of Rotarians have partnered with their national ministries of health, UNICEF, the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and with health providers at the grassroots level in thousands of communities.

Rotary Club of Ottawa Surpasses it's $18,000

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Rotarian Eva Hammond, participates in Rotary's

National Immunization Days in Cameroon

Rotarian Eva Hammond will be participated in Rotary's National Immunization Days in Cameroon - as part of an ongoing effort to eradicate Polio from the face of earth. She leaves Ottawa on January 17th and expects to immunize lot of children over a 10 day joint effort of Rotarians, including about 40 Canadians.
Before her departure, Eva has met with the Cameroon Ambassador, was invited for an interview on CJOH-CTV Late News "Focus" on Monday night December 30th and was featured in Saturday's January 4th Ottawa Sun in column “Heart of the City” by Laura Czekaj.

Museum of Science and Tech Polio Exhibit

A special exhibit at the Museum of Science and Technology commemorates the 50th anniversary of the beginning of trials testing Salk's polio vaccine. Alberta, Saskatchewan and Halifax, N.S. participated in these trials. The following year, 1955, the Canadian government brought in legislation for universal inoculation making Canada the first nation to do so. On the perfecting of oral polio vaccine by Dr. Sabin, Rotary International took up the challenge in 1985 to mobilize volunteers to donate vaccine and carry it to many national polio campaigns. The goal is to eradicate Polio by the year 2005.

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